Sunday, December 04, 2011

Poetry

One of my favorite blogs is Emma Tree. A blog by a poet from Texas, full of beautiful pictures and words. There's a lot of Texas in her poems...but you might enjoy them even if you're not from here, or even if you live here and don't consider yourself Texan at all. In her poems you might even find beauty in the summer heat, the bitter cold winter wind, dead grass on the roadside, wildfires, weeds. Here's some excerpts of her poetry (links to the full poems underneath).

in this year of loss upon loss upon heartbreakmy hand on my mother's heart as she drew her last breath
this year of drought and shimmering heat

...leaves lay like wounded butterflies on the porch outside my front door. grasshoppers cling to my window screens, as do lizards and moths, and temperatures at last below 100 lure me into the night once again, my old habits also returning.